Kenneth, I believe that I have read or listened to the audio of 1 John over 100 times now. What you say is foreign to all scripture, including 1 John, which speaks of God's seed remaining in the Believer. How can what is begotten of God sin? It is a new nature. The Christian retains his old nature though until death; thus he can & does sin.
But until you trust Christ as Savior, and deny the idol of water, I can't expect you to understand.
Why do you continue to post the same Cadwell words not in the Bible, as if repeating them proved anything.
How many times have you now been told that yes Christians need to confess sins to avoid chastisement? The text does NOT say in 1 Jn that the Christian is not forgiven if he does not confess. You add that one in. That is called the logical error of denying the antecedent.
Your vague allusions to Romans & 1 Cor & Hebrew proves nothing. They do not say that any Christian believer under any circumstances goes to the Lake of Fire. Kindly stop saying what is not there. Your "if the don't repent and ask forgiveness" claim is bogus. For $64,000 quote any verse that says a believer goes to the "Lake of Fire."
Ephesians & Colossians are clear
SCRIPTURE:
Col. 1:14
12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love; 14 in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:
in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins:
we = all Christians. If a man is a "we" then he has forgiveness.
have = present possession.
we have = universal fact for all who are we (Christians, born again believers).
What do we have? Redemption (bought out from bondage, set free) and forgiveness.
This is a categorical statement: All Christians have forgiveness of our sins.
What sins? Our sins. If the sins are ours, then they are forgiven.
Eph. 1:7 affirms the same truth.
6 to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved:
7 in whom
we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
Note how we = all Christians. And
have is a present tense.
All Christians now in the present tense have the forgiveness of our trespasses. There is
no exception made for Christians who have no unconfessed sins. There is a type of forgiveness that Christians do need for unconfessed sins, however, a forgiveness which can lead to escape from chastisement.
And note that the sinner who trusts Christ is more than forgiven, he is also justified, declared righteous, forever. (Rom. 3:24). To be forgiven is to have our sins practically forgotten and to be excused from any penalty. We are as if we had never sinned. But justification is not the mere removal of sin & its consequences; it include a positive declaration of righteousness. Courts may declare a man "not guilty." But justification goes further and declares the man not merely innocent, but righteous.
3:21 But now apart from the law a righteousness of God hath been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; 22 even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction; 23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God; 24 being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, . . . the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
Note how "all them who believe" excludes adding any essential to faith -- no works, no idol of water, no idol of one's self.
We have the forgiveness of our trespasses.
What trespasses? All trespasses which are ours!
No exceptions related to unconfessed.
Who? We = all Christians.
Have = present possession.
2 Peter 1:9
But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been
cleansed from their past sins.
2 Peter 2:20-22
For if, after they have escaped
( forgiven ) the defilements of the world
( Sins ) through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them
( Sins ) and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”
Hebrews 3:12-14
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart,
leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Hebrews 6:4-6
For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, and have
shared in the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the age to come, and then
have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.
2 Timothy 4:2-8
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and
will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
Romans 11:19-22
Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you,
provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.